Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 5
He was shown into a beautiful room, and given a seat on a rich carpet all flow-ered with silver and gold.
Who acts: rich carpet · What happens: show, give, er · To what, where: king, beautiful room, seat, rich carpet, all
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich carpet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shown | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shown | aux:pass |
| 3 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shown | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 given | cc |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shown | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 seat | det |
| 12 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 carpet | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 carpet | det |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 carpet | amod |
| 16 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 ered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ered | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 flow | punct |
| 20 | ered | er | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 carpet | acl:relcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 silver | case |
| 22 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ered | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gold | cc |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 silver | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past · passive | king | a beautiful room | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into room=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a seat | a rich carpet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on carpet=Asset | ||||
| 3 | er | participle · passive | a rich carpet not said here | all | with silver and gold | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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